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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (1002)	4/1/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

>>Claude, that's why I think the third edition of Fowlers' is defeatest and should not bear the name Fowlers'. My guess is that it was really written by someone else. <VBG!!> I love that book. It is so deliciously pretentious that it's hard to read without laughing out loud. << LOL. I agree. Fowler's II is probably the most wonderfully written book on writing ever written, and Fowler's III is perhaps defeatist on the usage 'everyone loves their own kind'. But in its own way, Fowler's II is defeatist on this point, since it does not offer an grammatically elegant way of expressing this sentence. It disapproves of 'Everyone loves his or her own kind', which is wordy and pedantic, and of 'Everyone loves one's own kind', which is suffocatingly stuffy. Grammatically, of course, 'Everyone loves his own kind' is correct, since 'his' can (historically) be gender neutral; but no one is comfortable with it.